Another "new" song is registered at ASCAP: Fire Suite 3.Now credited to Ray Dobbins, Roy Nathanson AND Elvis.I checked the sleevenote from the Juliet Letters reissue and there this song is only credited to Ray Dobbins and Roy Nathanson.Has Elvis reworked this song?

Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.

To my ears it sounds like "Christ Concious" features a sample from When I Was Cruel No 2 . Funnily enough the snippet used is itself a sample from a Mina track , Un Bacio È Troppo Poco, written by Antonio Amurri & Bruno Canfora .

A new song is registered on the ASCAP site: I Can't Turn It Off (Written by Elvis Costello).A demo of this song is featured in "Mystery Dance": viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9172&p=7711270Could this mean that "Mystery Dance" will get a DVD release?

Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.

"The deluxe eBook edition of Elvis Costello’s Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink features two hundred additional photos and images, including more from Costello’s original lyrics notebooks and a selection of his family’s most intriguing documents and vintage photographs. Pages from his father’s scrapbooks from the early ‘50s Merseyside jazz scene are contrasted with a ledger of setlists and meager fees from the author’s early musical partnership in Rusty on the Liverpool club scene and other mementoes from Costello’s musical apprenticeship."

"No Star" gets mentioned, and quoted, in the memoir. EC says it was written around the same time as, and is of a piece with, "Poison Moon" and "Jump Up":

The last in this group of songs was a more ambitious piece called “No Star,” about the absence of any lucky, guiding light in the sky. The title was a play on words, employing the Welsh “Good night” — Nos da — with which my mother sometimes bade me to sleep as a child, having learned it from our landlady in Olympia. It concluded:

If there’s one thing that’s worse than being lostIt’s knowing you’re so close to being found

The phrase "Rally Round The Flag" also appears in "Pills And Soap" (and "Stick Out Your Tongue").

IMDB says a song called "Jolly Grim Repo" performed by The Imposters(!) appears in the 1995 film The Immortals. This is clearly not the Imposters we know and love — a former member of the other Imposters has a website — but I wonder if the Imposters name somehow caused the song to be misfiled under EC's name.

Another Imposters song in the film is called "Evil Is." Perhaps that's the same song as the "Evil" listed on ASCAP?

I'm wondering whether we can take everything that the ASCAP site says at face value. I've been looking at this in some detail and have found quite a few anomalies. For example. The song count has now gone up to 646 which means that 3 extra songs have been added but on close inspection these would appear to be all from "Wise Up Ghost" including "Sugar Won't Work" and "My New Haunt". Why has it taken so long to add these to the list? Also there are some glaring omissions. "Having It All", "Harpies Bizarre" from "Mighty Like A Rose", "Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?" from "All This Useless Beauty", "Abandon Words" and "Poison Letter", the 2 Brutal Youth out-takes and at least 4 songs from the Wendy James album are all missing......and that's just for starters....

I have no idea under what circumstances a song needs to be registered with ASCAP anyway. Does it need to be recorded? Or just played in concert? Can anyone shed some light on this matter?

There are 6 new songs on the ASCAP site though I can only find 5 of them.

"Married To My Hack" and "6 Months in Kansas City" from The New Basement Tapes have finally been added, along with 2 songs from that project that have yet to see the light of day but which have appeared in concert - "Golden Tom - Silver Judas" and "Hidee Hidee Ho #16".

One other song that I do not recognise is "Entangled".

It's possible that the 6th song is "Tommy's Coming Home" from the McCartney demos as this now appears twice - as "Tommy's Coming Home" and "Tommy's Coming Home Again"